Les Edwards' preferred style is more in the field of Horror
than Science Fiction or Fantasy.

"My first view of Goya's Saturn Devouring His
Children left me thunderstruck. To see a graphically
macabre and violent image as a painting and presented as Art
came as a complete shock. Here was someone whose mind ran
along similar lines to mine."

Many of his paintings focus more on a portrait-style
perspective than a depiction of a scene in its entirety. Edwards
has developed this style from his appreciation of classical
portraiture.

"A portrait is a true test of an artist's skill - not
just to create a likeness, but to breath life into it. Van
Dyke's portraits live to the extent that you feel you are in
the presence of a real person. No photograph could have the
same quality. This is virtuoso painting and it is also
genius."

Edwards trained at Hornsey School of Art. Since he began his
career as a freelance artist, his work has become recognised and
respected by book and game publishers. His covers adorn many of
the Conan the Barbarian novels, and his works
can be found on Fantasy Game and Gamebook covers, including the
best-selling HeroQuest game, published by Milton
Bradley. Blood and Iron, a collection of
Edwards' own works, was published in 1990.